JISC Digital Media at DIVERSE ‘09

Posted by JISC Digital Media on Thursday 23 July 2009 at 10:56am
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Steve's presentation was titled Improving the Quality of Visual Media in Education or Anyone Can Make a Movie! In it, he spoke about how, by paying attention to a few simple points, it is possible for non-professionals to make quite presentable videos using the simplest equipment.  As with almost all of the presentations at DIVERSE, Steve's talk was recorded.

Everyone had a wonderful time at DIVERSE, a conference dedicated to the use of video in education.  The small, friendly crowd, meeting in a beautiful part of Wales -- with uncharacteristically lovely weather -- spent the three days talking, brainstorming and getting inspired about this exciting area of research.  Next year's conference is at the University of Southern Maine in the US and should prove to be just as beneficial to all attending.

A caveat about the recording: unfortunately, the sound quality of the video clips that were played is very poor.  We have, however, re-rendered the clips for the JISC Digital Media website and present them herewith.

A further caveat if you're looking at the clips without seeing the presentation: the first one is intentionally horrible.  With each successive clip we remove some of the problems of the first clip until by clip 5 we achieve something which, while not brilliant, is nonetheless acceptable and usable.

Clip 1 - doing everything wrong

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Clip 2 - now we can see and hear and get a bit of useful visual information

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Clip 3 - at last, a tripod - and no CRT monitor

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Clip 4 - using better interviewing techniques

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Clip 5 - after a little editing

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